The alarm has been sounding from the whole fanbase for 4 months. How about a good old slap to the face to wtfu?
Kind_Shoulder541 on
tbf, Arsenal always play poorly when it rains
MasterScheme2434 on
If we don’t win the prem I don’t even think I’ll be surprised. It won’t even hurt. It’s the like getting stabbed and slowly watching the life leave my body. Arteta got it wrong and the players decided that taking a huge shit on the field is the reaction I’m sure Arteta was talking about.
Defiant_Equipment331 on
Arteta business end of the season is always a failure and the quicker we come to terms with it – is better for everyone rather than defending it. Everyone on here wishes the best for this club but I personally don’t think that anyone is hopeful for the remaining games and that is a sign of how poorly the manager has made the club play this season.
aultmore000 on
If we win nothing and they give arteta an extension Arsenal will be confirmed as a joke club
v5p4r on
Yeah after all this time and resources. Not sure what Arteta can fall back on.
1. Players injured: you played them into the ground and never rotated.
2. Players not good enough: they were brought with your consultation and input.
3. Tactics not enough: he will never accept that, instead keeps talking about “what we did in the last 9 months guys”. People want to know what we were doing in the past few weeks mikel?
4. External pressure is too much: you do not deflect pressure you build it up, just be like Pep and say that the other team is the favourite. Ease pressure on the players.
5. Crowd atmosphere not good: how it would watching this turgid football with no fight and courage.
In the end football is an entertainment business. He seems to have forgotten that you need to play with some semblance of coherence, courage and freedom.
Wenger_for_President on
Alarm was sounding already. It’s now full fucking panic mode. They are really going to fucking bottle it again
Patrick_Hattrick on
James is, as usual, spot on about a lot here (and far more measured than I was at full time), but what really stood out to me is how he preempted criticism of the crowd.
They were absolutely bang up for it at the beginning of the game and gave the team every encouragement to show something different than what we’ve seen recently. But when it becomes clear quite quickly that they’ll be serving up the same tepid stuff yet again, what can you expect from the fans?
The relationship between the fans and the team is reciprocal, it’s two-way, and that’s the case for every club. Arsenal fans aren’t unique.
Perhaps the club should reflect on *why* the atmosphere was so much better at the stadium in 22/23 and the back end of 23/24.
Sad_Teaching_5683 on
This is the worst we looked since the start of 2021-22 season yeah we collapsed at the end of 2022-23 season but even in that time our attacks look good we can score goals
Now we can’t get near the opposition Box
TheKABH on
We suck in big games and in small games as well. This year has been some of the worst football I’ve seen
Wolferesque on
The alarm has been going off since November. We’ve just been hitting snooze every time til now.
DefactoOverlord on
Fundamental system changes must be implemented because nothing we do on the pitch is working. There’s no recovering so late in the season.
Haenimm on
Arteta is gonna die by the sword of stubbornness I feel like. Whole season he stood by Zubi. Zubi has been bad for soooo long. Two defensive midfielders every game, can’t be like this. It’s such a coward way of playing football.
JeffBroccoli on
James always does a great job at articulating the same thoughts and emotions that I’m experiencing
ClockEnd_Chorus on
u/Arsenal read the room bro
zhdat on
When watching the game, not only I watch whether the team is playing good or bad, but also trying to sense the identity and approach the team takes.
How do you start? How do you process both attacking and defense? What mindset do players and coaches have when things go either good or bad?
For a few months, I am not seeing it from the team, which is really alarming. Either we squeak away or collapse.
I have tried to be patient and optimistic, that the team will eventually pick back up. However, my pessimism is definitely kicking in.
Thekavorka87 on
100% agreed with James
FowlZone on
the alarm wasn’t ringing already?
CivilExam1011 on
Win or lose the league, i would look to replace Arteta
[deleted] on
This is it. I’m breaking up. Been supporting Arsenal for 30 years, but even during our darkest days at the end of the 2010’s, I have never felt as disillusioned with the club.
We have spent hundreds of millions, and Arteta has had years to shape the team, and the result is absolute garbage.
We play like we hate football. Like football is something you’re forced to play and forced to watch. And our brand of football makes it seem like being a footballer is a job AI will steal from us in the future.
Even if we win it or not this season, the recipe going forward will be even more of Raya stepping on the ball, even less urengcy and excitement, and even more backpasses from our most creative players.
Yes, this is an emotional rant. But it’s also a final farewell to the club I’ve fallen out of love with, and who have made me fall out of love with the game.
Congratulations, Arsenal. You broke me in the end.
Far_Eye6555 on
Fire Arteta at the end of the season. Hire Alonso. This is pathetic at this point.
Caterpillar_Fluid on
Arteta keeps hitting the snooze button.
BudBill18 on
It’s a 5 alarm fire
Xashar on
The way I see it, freaking out, complaining, or panicking is the most natural but counter-productive thing we could do right now. Imagine, a collective of negativity when our lads most need our positivity and belief. Let’s unite in our support. It’s not over till it’s over!
ItGetsEverywhere1990 on
I noticed the same thing: they’re better than us. I think we look bang average as a collection of midfielders and forwards, who’ve until this point been made to look better by good defenders.
HR_Specter on
When James is looking depressed, you know it’s bad.
EMCRVA on
It’s been months of this really. A lot of people have been shut down for talking about it for being “negative.” Some truth to that but the signs have been there. James makes a great point saying we’re not threatening. Missing players like Odegaard and Merino as well as Saka doesn’t help but we just flat out look tepid tactically.
wanofan900 on
Yes.
Better to sound it early and get into gear before it’s too late.
ChefRoscoPColtrane on
If we don’t win anything this year it is 6 years and then surely we can say he’s had at least 2 cycles of building and building. Klopp won CL after 4 and clearly if not for an outstanding man city finish would’ve done the double that year as well. Let’s not talk about slott either. This feels like the Leicester year for me – a massive opportunity missed if we don’t close out.
cobrakai17 on
Don’t worry guys! They’ll drop new merch for us to buy soon!
Elfking88 on
Gunnerblog always has the sensible takes.
At the start of the season most people agreed it was make or break time. It was either time for Arteta’s Arsenal to win that major trophy, or it was time to move on. I think that is still the case.
The good will among fans over the last few years isn’t inexhaustible. We have been patient. Arteta has done a great job of rescuing us from mid-table positions that we increasingly found ourselves stuck in. I maintain still that he is a very, very good manager who will only get better the longer he’s in the game…
But, it’s clear that the patience and good will have dwindled away now. We are very much at the stage where we either win the Premier League or the bond between the fans and the current team (and specifically the management) will be gone.
There really would be no excuse for not winning the league this season. None at all. I’ve defended us from accusations of being “bottlers” in past seasons. There’s no way I could do that this time around. It’s not just results going against us, the players visibly look like they can’t cope with the weight of what is expected.
We are being hamstrung somewhat with injuries, we’ve almost never been able to put out out first 11 this year, but we were all praising the size of the squad, the injuries have been bad, but we should have enough to cope.
For the first time in a few months, I really don’t think we’re going to do it. First league game after cup final disappointment, losing in the FA cup and scraping a draw in the CL. A chance to go out and make the gap 12 points, to show that we are ready to go the distance… and we put in an absolutely miserable performance.
I don’t know how the squad sorts themselves out now. We are in the real crunch time and we’ve given away a lot of our safety cushion (assuming City win out). We’ve left ourselves in a no more dropped points situation, and I don’t think anyone who has seen us in the last few months believe we can go from now to the end without dropping more.
Maxymous on
This guy sounds like me. I said we’d be lucky to crawl over the line at the end of the season at this rate. We could have kept playing Bournemouth for a couple more hours, and we wouldn’t have scored…
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The alarm has been sounding from the whole fanbase for 4 months. How about a good old slap to the face to wtfu?
tbf, Arsenal always play poorly when it rains
If we don’t win the prem I don’t even think I’ll be surprised. It won’t even hurt. It’s the like getting stabbed and slowly watching the life leave my body. Arteta got it wrong and the players decided that taking a huge shit on the field is the reaction I’m sure Arteta was talking about.
Arteta business end of the season is always a failure and the quicker we come to terms with it – is better for everyone rather than defending it. Everyone on here wishes the best for this club but I personally don’t think that anyone is hopeful for the remaining games and that is a sign of how poorly the manager has made the club play this season.
If we win nothing and they give arteta an extension Arsenal will be confirmed as a joke club
Yeah after all this time and resources. Not sure what Arteta can fall back on.
1. Players injured: you played them into the ground and never rotated.
2. Players not good enough: they were brought with your consultation and input.
3. Tactics not enough: he will never accept that, instead keeps talking about “what we did in the last 9 months guys”. People want to know what we were doing in the past few weeks mikel?
4. External pressure is too much: you do not deflect pressure you build it up, just be like Pep and say that the other team is the favourite. Ease pressure on the players.
5. Crowd atmosphere not good: how it would watching this turgid football with no fight and courage.
In the end football is an entertainment business. He seems to have forgotten that you need to play with some semblance of coherence, courage and freedom.
Alarm was sounding already. It’s now full fucking panic mode. They are really going to fucking bottle it again
James is, as usual, spot on about a lot here (and far more measured than I was at full time), but what really stood out to me is how he preempted criticism of the crowd.
They were absolutely bang up for it at the beginning of the game and gave the team every encouragement to show something different than what we’ve seen recently. But when it becomes clear quite quickly that they’ll be serving up the same tepid stuff yet again, what can you expect from the fans?
The relationship between the fans and the team is reciprocal, it’s two-way, and that’s the case for every club. Arsenal fans aren’t unique.
Perhaps the club should reflect on *why* the atmosphere was so much better at the stadium in 22/23 and the back end of 23/24.
This is the worst we looked since the start of 2021-22 season yeah we collapsed at the end of 2022-23 season but even in that time our attacks look good we can score goals
Now we can’t get near the opposition Box
We suck in big games and in small games as well. This year has been some of the worst football I’ve seen
The alarm has been going off since November. We’ve just been hitting snooze every time til now.
Fundamental system changes must be implemented because nothing we do on the pitch is working. There’s no recovering so late in the season.
Arteta is gonna die by the sword of stubbornness I feel like. Whole season he stood by Zubi. Zubi has been bad for soooo long. Two defensive midfielders every game, can’t be like this. It’s such a coward way of playing football.
James always does a great job at articulating the same thoughts and emotions that I’m experiencing
u/Arsenal read the room bro
When watching the game, not only I watch whether the team is playing good or bad, but also trying to sense the identity and approach the team takes.
How do you start? How do you process both attacking and defense? What mindset do players and coaches have when things go either good or bad?
For a few months, I am not seeing it from the team, which is really alarming. Either we squeak away or collapse.
I have tried to be patient and optimistic, that the team will eventually pick back up. However, my pessimism is definitely kicking in.
100% agreed with James
the alarm wasn’t ringing already?
Win or lose the league, i would look to replace Arteta
This is it. I’m breaking up. Been supporting Arsenal for 30 years, but even during our darkest days at the end of the 2010’s, I have never felt as disillusioned with the club.
We have spent hundreds of millions, and Arteta has had years to shape the team, and the result is absolute garbage.
We play like we hate football. Like football is something you’re forced to play and forced to watch. And our brand of football makes it seem like being a footballer is a job AI will steal from us in the future.
Even if we win it or not this season, the recipe going forward will be even more of Raya stepping on the ball, even less urengcy and excitement, and even more backpasses from our most creative players.
Yes, this is an emotional rant. But it’s also a final farewell to the club I’ve fallen out of love with, and who have made me fall out of love with the game.
Congratulations, Arsenal. You broke me in the end.
Fire Arteta at the end of the season. Hire Alonso. This is pathetic at this point.
Arteta keeps hitting the snooze button.
It’s a 5 alarm fire
The way I see it, freaking out, complaining, or panicking is the most natural but counter-productive thing we could do right now. Imagine, a collective of negativity when our lads most need our positivity and belief. Let’s unite in our support. It’s not over till it’s over!
I noticed the same thing: they’re better than us. I think we look bang average as a collection of midfielders and forwards, who’ve until this point been made to look better by good defenders.
When James is looking depressed, you know it’s bad.
It’s been months of this really. A lot of people have been shut down for talking about it for being “negative.” Some truth to that but the signs have been there. James makes a great point saying we’re not threatening. Missing players like Odegaard and Merino as well as Saka doesn’t help but we just flat out look tepid tactically.
Yes.
Better to sound it early and get into gear before it’s too late.
If we don’t win anything this year it is 6 years and then surely we can say he’s had at least 2 cycles of building and building. Klopp won CL after 4 and clearly if not for an outstanding man city finish would’ve done the double that year as well. Let’s not talk about slott either. This feels like the Leicester year for me – a massive opportunity missed if we don’t close out.
Don’t worry guys! They’ll drop new merch for us to buy soon!
Gunnerblog always has the sensible takes.
At the start of the season most people agreed it was make or break time. It was either time for Arteta’s Arsenal to win that major trophy, or it was time to move on. I think that is still the case.
The good will among fans over the last few years isn’t inexhaustible. We have been patient. Arteta has done a great job of rescuing us from mid-table positions that we increasingly found ourselves stuck in. I maintain still that he is a very, very good manager who will only get better the longer he’s in the game…
But, it’s clear that the patience and good will have dwindled away now. We are very much at the stage where we either win the Premier League or the bond between the fans and the current team (and specifically the management) will be gone.
There really would be no excuse for not winning the league this season. None at all. I’ve defended us from accusations of being “bottlers” in past seasons. There’s no way I could do that this time around. It’s not just results going against us, the players visibly look like they can’t cope with the weight of what is expected.
We are being hamstrung somewhat with injuries, we’ve almost never been able to put out out first 11 this year, but we were all praising the size of the squad, the injuries have been bad, but we should have enough to cope.
For the first time in a few months, I really don’t think we’re going to do it. First league game after cup final disappointment, losing in the FA cup and scraping a draw in the CL. A chance to go out and make the gap 12 points, to show that we are ready to go the distance… and we put in an absolutely miserable performance.
I don’t know how the squad sorts themselves out now. We are in the real crunch time and we’ve given away a lot of our safety cushion (assuming City win out). We’ve left ourselves in a no more dropped points situation, and I don’t think anyone who has seen us in the last few months believe we can go from now to the end without dropping more.
This guy sounds like me. I said we’d be lucky to crawl over the line at the end of the season at this rate. We could have kept playing Bournemouth for a couple more hours, and we wouldn’t have scored…